From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment.

It's always good to have old friends do the show, especially old friends who've never done the show before.

Of course, I'm sitting across from John Cresensinski, who we know from this last year for his direction and

starring it and co-writing the script for A Quiet Place. But I think of him as an actor who has played

so many characters who are so busy trying to explain themselves. Oh, really? Oh, boy, we're going to get

deep. Oh, boy. Nobody's ever said that about this show before. But I guess as we sit down and talk about this, given your theater background, I want to talk to you about working with Sam Mendez, who's done the show a couple of times before.

Nice.

And that movie so much, in a lot of ways, reminds me of a quiet place in terms of this is about people getting close to each other.

Absolutely right.

And not talking in a lot of ways.

Absolutely right. I remember someone saying to me like, quiet place almost feels like it could be the sequel to away we go.

And I was like, wow, they had so much hope in a way we go.

So little hope in a quiet place. No, that was one of my favorite experiences, period. It was a bizarre experience. I had done, I think, like, three or four days on Jarhead. I was a tiny, tiny part in Jarhead. And there was a scene that I was supposed to do with Jake. And Sam didn't love that scene. So he asked if we could expound upon it and add a little more. And so I went into Sam's trailer with Jake and we were adding these lines and we were laughing. And then one day I got a call out of the blue long after that.

I was just doing the office.

And it was Sam Mendez.

And he said, listen, I have this script.

It's called The Way We Go.

And, you know, I want you to do it.

And I just thought, this remembered you from Jarhead, and I think that you're perfect for this role,

and I want to cast Maya Rudolph.

He had it all down.

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